In the following essay, various expatriate American artists from Gertrude Stein to Harry Crosby explain their artistic and economic reasons for relocating and working in Paris.
transition has asked...
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In the following essay, edited by Thomas Dilworth, the Pulitzer-Prize winning composer reminisces about his relationships with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and other figures he met in the literary and ...
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In the following essay, Pizer relies on the autobiographical writings of Ernest Hemingway (A Movable Feast), Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas), and Anaïs Nin (The Diary of A...
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In the following excerpt, McMahon enumerates the reasons that individuals from different geographical locations of the United States removed themselves to Paris.
Poor Strether had at this very mome...
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In the following excerpt, Earnest credits such literary journals as The Little Review and The Dial, as well as the publication of The Education of Henry Adams, with the decision of American writers an...
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In the following excerpt, Ullman—the son of painter Eugene Paul Ullman—uses his father's unpublished memoirs to present the multi-cultural milieu of Paris during the 1920s.
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In the following essay, Munson, the former editor of the magazine Secession, recalls the writers and editors living in Paris and presents an overview of American critical reaction to the works being p...
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In the following essay, Méral examines several works inspired by expatriate life in Paris during the 1920s.
The Reconstruction of Paris
The Paris of the 1920s makes a relatively rapid entry ...
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In the following essay, Fabre discusses African-American writers living in Paris, including Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Walter White.
The 1920s and 1930s were indeed the heyday of American visit...
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There’s no way around it: Eugène Atget’s photographs, the subject of an elegantly appointed exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery, are beautiful. His immaculately poised depictions of Pa...
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Here is a chronology of events since Paris Hilton's arrest last year.Sept. 7: Officers arrest Paris Hilton in Hollywood for investigation of driving under the influence after she was spotted "drivi...
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The world premiere production of Georg Friedrich Haas' "Melancholia" and Anna Netrebko singing Giulietta in a revival of Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" highlight the 2007-8 Paris Opera season...
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Paris Hilton awoke Saturday behind bars again in a maximum security detention center where the distraught hotel heiress was believed to be undergoing medical and psychiatric evaluations.Hilton, in ...
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Paris Hilton got out of jail Tuesday and immediately got back to being Paris Hilton, summoning a hair-salon van and, by her mere presence, creating a huge traffic jam that angered the neighbors.It ...
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One day Paris Hilton is screaming for her mommy as she is cuffed and taken to the pokey in a reckless driving case. The next, she's the model of magnanimity, saying she wouldn't appeal her 45-day s...
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The bars were still open when Paris Hilton was let out of jail, but if she was celebrating she did so behind the walls of her grandparents' mansion.Was it a sign that the professional party girl is...
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Critical Essay by transition
Paris Chronicle
